Important Note Regarding Post Editing

I recently made a change to the way the post editing feature behaves. In the past, members have been able to edit posts indefinitely. Unfortunately, this privilege has been abused and I was forced to limit use of the "Edit" feature to within 15 minutes one hour of when a post is first made. This will allow you to fix any obvious problems with a post (such as spelling mistakes), but after those 15 minutes that one hour are is up, you will no longer be able to edit your posts. I have made a few exceptions, such as with the Marketplace, Wanted, and the various Programming-related forums. In these forums, you can still edit your posts indefinitely.

Outside of that, I do understand that there are some threads where it's advantageous for the topic starter to maintain the first post (or possibly others) in a thread. If you need the ability to edit a specific post, please post here which posts you need to be able to edit and why, and I can selectively grant you access to edit those posts.

I understand the thinking here, but won't this subject the forum database to unneeded bloat, because ongoing WIP homebrews will need to be reposted dozens of times, instead of just editing the top post of said thread?

I understand the thinking here, but won't this subject the forum database to unneeded bloat, because ongoing WIP homebrews will need to be reposted dozens of times, instead of just editing the top post of said thread?

The homebrew and various programming forums are some of those that I enabled indefinite editing on posts for this very reason. When we make the switch to IP.Board 3.0 early next year, I will likely be adding the IP.Downloads module, which will be well suited for posting and revising homebrew binaries and will pretty much eliminate that issue.

I understand the thinking here, but won't this subject the forum database to unneeded bloat, because ongoing WIP homebrews will need to be reposted dozens of times, instead of just editing the top post of said thread?

The homebrew and various programming forums are some of those that I enabled indefinite editing on posts for this very reason. When we make the switch to IP.Board 3.0 early next year, I will likely be adding the IP.Downloads module, which will be well suited for posting and revising homebrew binaries and will pretty much eliminate that issue.

'Abused' in what way? I have justone finger to type with. I guess I will just have to go over my post more carefully before adding my reply.

May it not be more fair to revoke the option from theabusers instead of 'punishing' everybody after warning everybody by say having a system message apoun login?

I recently made a change to the way the post editing feature behaves. In the past, members have been able to edit posts indefinitely. Unfortunately, this privilege has been abused and I was forced to limit use of the "Edit" feature to within 15 minutes of when a post is first made. This will allow you to fix any obvious problems with a post (such as spelling mistakes), but after those 15 minutes are up, you will no longer be able to edit your posts. I have made a few exceptions, such as with the Marketplace, Wanted, and the various Programming-related forums. In these forums, you can still edit your posts indefinitely.

Outside of that, I do understand that there are some threads where it's advantageous for the topic starter to maintain the first post (or possibly others) in a thread. If you need the ability to edit a specific post, please post here which posts you need to be able to edit and why, and I can selectively grant you access to edit those posts.

'Abused' in what way? I have justone finger to type with. I guess I will just have to go over my post more carefully before adding my reply.

May it not be more fair to revoke the option from theabusers instead of 'punishing' everybody after warning everybody by say having a system message apoun login?

Unfortunately several people have gone back and edited away all of their posts, sometimes numbering in the thousands. I was recently able to recover most of these posts from backups, but it was a considerable amount of work. Once someone goes and does something of this nature, there's really no point in removing their edit privileges after the fact (and usually they won't be coming back anyway). This has happened enough that it's really not worthwhile to allow people to edit their posts beyond an initial window (which I may increase a bit), in addition to special cases where editing will be allowed indefinitely (such as the Marketplace forum).

Unfortunately several people have gone back and edited away all of their posts, sometimes numbering in the thousands. I was recently able to recover most of these posts from backups, but it was a considerable amount of work. Once someone goes and does something of this nature, there's really no point in removing their edit privileges after the fact (and usually they won't be coming back anyway). This has happened enough that it's really not worthwhile to allow people to edit their posts beyond an initial window (which I may increase a bit), in addition to special cases where editing will be allowed indefinitely (such as the Marketplace forum).

What motivates somone to go to that extreme? Kinda strange if you ask me. Seriously, how long would it take to edit away a thousand posts.

Unfortunately several people have gone back and edited away all of their posts, sometimes numbering in the thousands. I was recently able to recover most of these posts from backups, but it was a considerable amount of work. Once someone goes and does something of this nature, there's really no point in removing their edit privileges after the fact (and usually they won't be coming back anyway). This has happened enough that it's really not worthwhile to allow people to edit their posts beyond an initial window (which I may increase a bit), in addition to special cases where editing will be allowed indefinitely (such as the Marketplace forum).

What motivates somone to go to that extreme? Kinda strange if you ask me. Seriously, how long would it take to edit away a thousand posts.

It is a strange thing, yes. It takes a considerable amount of time to edit that many posts.